THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2193, sig. 109-9/17

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Copy. 14 THE OBERLANDRAT E Moravian-Ostrava. 20 July 194 3rd in Moravian Ostrau for the districts of Moravian Ostrava, Friedeck, Friedberg, Wall-Meseritsch and Wsetin Fernruf No. 25.95 Inspector of the Imperial Protector An den Abl. N. Dr. Jo/Cy Herrn Inspector General of the Administration SS-Brigadeführer and Maj. General of Police R one for a t h in Prague. Subject: Visit by the Italian army general Grassi and the Italian Consul General to Prague, Duke Capece, to Moravia-Ostrava. At the invitation of the Wehrmacht site oldest in Moravia-Eastrau, Lieutenant-Colonel Kipper, the Upper Land Council held on Monday, the l9. 7.ds.Js., at the reception of the Italian Army General Grassi, who came to Moravia-Ostrava with a larger escort, including the Italian Consul General, the Duke of Capece. Italian guests were welcomed in the rooms of the Wehrmacht site oldest. The head of the district, the representative of the mayor, the director of the police department and the local "fascio" also took part in the greeting. Afterwards, those cemeteries in Mihr.-Ostrau were visited, in which Italian soldiers from the time of the war l9l4/l9l8 were buried. At the largest such burial place wreaths of the Italian delegation and the Wehrmacht site oldest were laid down in Moravia-Ostrava. - After the visit of the graves, where honorary posts of the Flakeinhei in Moravia-Ostrava were situated and which were in very well maintained condition, the Italian delegation went to the premises of the local "Fascio" group "Somma Donato", where General Grassi gave a shorter speech. In the evening, the Hotel Palace had guests from the Wehrmacht ee cda tc e te, several officers, district head, Oberlandrat, representatives of the mayor and police director, the defence officer of Witkowitzer Werke, Captain de la Sauce, as well as the